Performance Measurement Contracts

Performance Measurement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Performance Measurement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Measurement over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 547 625
Rank change year-on-year +83 +78 +156
Contract jobs citing Performance Measurement 55 53 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 60
10th Percentile £406 £43 £412
25th Percentile £425 £368 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £623 £569 £552
90th Percentile £790 £602 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £45 £500
% change year-on-year +1011.11% -91.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 9
10th Percentile - £25.38 £43.59
25th Percentile £22.14 £41.50 -
Median hourly rate £46.38 £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +2.04% +86.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £60.53 £61.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -29.50% +2.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Measurement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Performance Measurement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Measurement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Measurement in the UK

Performance Measurement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Measurement.

Daily rate trend for Performance Measurement in the UK

Performance Measurement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Measurement over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Measurement in the UK

Performance Measurement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Measurement.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Measurement in the UK

Performance Measurement
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Measurement over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Measurement in the UK

Performance Measurement
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Measurement within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 47 £500 +11.11% 75
UK excluding London +56 30 £500 +1011.11% 31
London +37 22 £525 +9.09% 49
Work from Home +46 17 £635 +45.20% 36
North of England +38 12 £463 - 4
Yorkshire - 7 £463 - 2
Midlands +25 5 £234 - 6
North West +14 5 - - 2
Scotland +11 4 £621 +41.83% 1
West Midlands - 4 - - 4
South East +40 3 £500 +11.11% 10
East of England +34 3 £800 - 5
South West +34 2 £410 +811.11% 3
East Midlands +7 1 £234 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Performance Measurement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) CMS
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Primavera
1 6 (10.91%) SAP PS
2 2 (3.64%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.82%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 1 (1.82%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) Power Platform
2 8 (14.55%) Google Analytics
3 6 (10.91%) Adobe Analytics
3 6 (10.91%) Azure
4 2 (3.64%) GCP
4 2 (3.64%) Google Data Studio
4 2 (3.64%) Lucidchart
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.82%) Adverity
5 1 (1.82%) Asana
5 1 (1.82%) AWS
5 1 (1.82%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.82%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.82%) IaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.82%) PaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.82%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) DHCP
1 1 (1.82%) DNS
1 1 (1.82%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.82%) NAS
1 1 (1.82%) SAN
1 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) Power BI
1 9 (16.36%) Tableau
2 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.82%) Looker
4 1 (1.82%) Metadata
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Power Query
4 1 (1.82%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.82%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (67.27%) Social Skills
2 24 (43.64%) Finance
3 22 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (27.27%) Marketing
5 7 (12.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
6 6 (10.91%) Police
7 5 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (7.27%) Brand Awareness
8 4 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (5.45%) Advertising
9 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.82%) Back Office
11 1 (1.82%) Banking
11 1 (1.82%) Electronics
11 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.82%) Law
11 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) Support Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Project Planner
4 4 (7.27%) Campaign Manager
4 4 (7.27%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 4 (7.27%) Lead
4 4 (7.27%) Project Controller
5 3 (5.45%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Business Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Business Operations Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Operations Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Performance Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Product Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Business Process Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Process Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) REST
1 4 (7.27%) SOAP
2 2 (3.64%) CSS
2 2 (3.64%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Social Media
2 4 (7.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.45%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.64%) Digital Media
4 2 (3.64%) Life Science
4 2 (3.64%) Podcast
5 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Solaris
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 18 (32.73%) Analytics
4 14 (25.45%) Project Management
4 14 (25.45%) Strategic Thinking
5 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (20.00%) Data Analysis
7 10 (18.18%) Performance Management
7 10 (18.18%) Visualisation
8 9 (16.36%) Strategic Planning
9 8 (14.55%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (14.55%) Data Governance
9 8 (14.55%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (14.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 8 (14.55%) Storytelling
10 7 (12.73%) Agile
10 7 (12.73%) Data Analytics
10 7 (12.73%) Performance Metrics
10 7 (12.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) SQL
2 4 (7.27%) T-SQL
3 3 (5.45%) Python
4 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.64%) R
5 1 (1.82%) C#
5 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.82%) PeopleCode
5 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.64%) PMP
5 1 (1.82%) MBA
5 1 (1.82%) PgMP
5 1 (1.82%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (1.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.82%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) Data Quality
1 7 (12.73%) GDPR
2 6 (10.91%) SLA
3 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 5 (9.09%) QA
4 2 (3.64%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (3.64%) MiFID
5 1 (1.82%) PMO
5 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Ansible
1 1 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.82%) Netcool
1 1 (1.82%) Terraform
1 1 (1.82%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Google
3 7 (12.73%) SAP
4 6 (10.91%) Adobe
5 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.64%) Citrix
6 2 (3.64%) Marketo
6 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 2 (3.64%) Workday
7 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.82%) EMC
7 1 (1.82%) Facebook
7 1 (1.82%) Instagram
7 1 (1.82%) Isilon
7 1 (1.82%) Qualys
7 1 (1.82%) Serena
7 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.82%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.82%) Splunk
7 1 (1.82%) TikTok